saltspray rose

English

Saltspray rose growing on a beach

Noun

saltspray rose (plural saltspray roses)

1. A plant of the rose species Rosa rugosa.
   • 1991, Scott Russell Sanders, Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home, Boston: Beacon Press, Part 2, “Jailhouse Blues,” p. 139,^[1]

     I followed the tracks as they meandered from lane to field of purple beach peas and saltspray roses […]

   • 2010, Therese Bohman, “Drowned”, in Marlaine Delargy, transl., Other Press‎^[2], New York, Part 1, p. 48:

     Every holiday when we were little we went to some cottage by the sea, to sandy Swedish beaches shelving gently into the water, saltspray roses in full bloom […]

Synonyms

• beach rose, rugosa

Translations

Rosa rugosa

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: rimpelroos f
• Finnish: kurtturuusu (fi)
• German: Kartoffelrose f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: шипо́вник морщи́нистый m (šipóvnik morščínistyj)
• Swedish: vresros (sv) c